The blog will be busy this month. Friends - it's time for the infamous Hicks Family Vacation. It's spring break in Kansas and we are, once again, headed out on the road.This vacation is significant. It represents one of the last times we will be together as the four of us. You see, life has a way of changing - and ours is reaching another milestone. We have a senior in high school.
I am trying not to dwell on that as we go through the familiar rituals of packing, loading the car and taking the ritualistic "ready and loaded" picture. (The youngest, though compliant, is angry because we made him leave the X-Box at home after trying to sneak it in with his luggage. The giveaway? The word "fragile" taped to the outside of his bag....)
As it is, here we go. And we begin this trip by revisiting one of our favorite locations from our Carlsbad location - Pops in Edmond Oklahoma. This time, we visit at night so we can see the pop bottle in its complete glory. And it is fabulous. Mesmerizing. If you haven't been to Pops, go. It's roughly 5 miles to the east of I-35 on Route 66 and it is a sight and wonder to behold. This rose is worth smelling.
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This time we also ate dinner in the café. Our party wasn't big enough for a booth (you have to have 5 or more), but we did get a table right under the pop bottle display where we ate hamburgers and (mom is trying to be healthy) the honey roasted chicken salad.
Before heading out we loaded up on six bottles of Pop From Around the World using the convenient cardboard six-pack carrier located everywhere around the store. Our collection?
- Grass Soda: Mowed and Bottled in the USA
- Jones Blue Bubblegum Soda with a cover photo of an iguana from Pamela Jones of Huntsville, AL
- Jones Cream Soda with a cover photo of four-hand guitar picking by Emma Pritchett of Fort Worth, TX
- Grandpa Lundquist's Christmas Soda from Sweden bottled in IL
- Fest's Satsuma Mint Soda from Louisiana
- Jarritos Fruit Punch from El Paso, TX
